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Democrats feel better about the news they pay for than Republicans The more negative attitudes of Republicans and independents toward the media when compared with [...]

This research was conducted by the Media Insight Project — an initiative of the American Press Institute and the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs [...]

Democrats have much more positive views of the media overall In our report on views on the media, Americans were asked a variety of questions [...]

Democrats and Republicans interact with news in similar ways, while independents are less newsy At a time when there seems a growing ideological divide in [...]

The number of fact-checking stories produced by journalists has increased dramatically in recent years, but could those stories be better at countering misinformation? Scholars and [...]

This research was conducted by the Media Insight Project — an initiative of the American Press Institute and the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs [...]

Previous conceptions of trust in media Researchers have found trust in media declining for several years now, though they don’t all agree on when the [...]

Support for the watchdog One area where public confidence in the media has not eroded over the years is the watchdog role of the press. [...]

If politics causes a divide in trust, so does age. In general, regardless of party identification, younger adults are less likely to trust the news [...]

One possible explanation for an overall decline in trust is that parts of the media, especially TV, have blurred the distinction between opinion and straight [...]